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Viewing the bigger picture

The big question for what happens next for the city of Brisbane and for many cities worldwide is the role of climate change in flood events.

The previous big flood event in the city was in 1974. Since then a dam has been built as flood mitigation and in 2011 it has protected the city from more severe flooding.

However, with climate change, the expected frequency and severity of flooding could be expected to increase. So yes, a competition too – looking at the bigger picture – to design floodable spaces and places for cities would be a great contribution to urban flood defences and urban design.

6 thoughts on “Viewing the bigger picture”

I have done a post on Waffle Landscape Planning as a suggstion re how to answer the Big Question. I like the idea of a Flood Landscapes Design ‘Competition’ but wonder if it should be more of a Co-Operation than a Competition?

Yes, I think there should be many sections to the competition and many sections to the manual (including echidna). It looks as though flood-prevention and water-conservation need to become major landscape planning objectives for Australia, as they are in Holland and will be in all the world’s flood-prone cities. See http://www.rms.com/Reports/OECD_Cities_Coastal_Flooding.pdf